History Hyenas with Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas - Dancing to Death in 1518 | History Hyenas

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

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Guys, welcome to another episode of History Hyenas. As always, go to YouTube.com slash history hyenas. Like and subscribe to the potty wadi and Patreon.com slash history hyenas for all the ad-free episodes and bonus content. We got a great episode for you today about the dancing plague of 1519. Ooh, it's 1518 and it's just a crazy story. You're going to love it. Catch me to Atlantic City, June 26 and 27th.

East Hampton, New York, July 8th. New Brunswick, New Jersey, July 17th or 18th in Philly, August 14th and 15th and August. August 21st, 23rd tickets at Janus Pappas Comedy.com. We love you guys. Enjoy this app. Enjoy the app and every Thursday. I will be at New York Comedy Club doing shows at 6 and 830 working on new material. And then go to Christycom. I got some new dates up there. We need to just come support your boy. I need a new roof. You did something to the cameras. You did a Lebanese. You sabotaged it.

You did some sort of Lebanese trick. Yeah, you did a Lebanese trick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Tell us again how your family was living side by side in peace with the local Arab population. And there was no problems. And they just, everyone paid the peaceful geezer and everything was okay. My family was just like, you know what?

We live side by side. Once in a while, they do a Durf Schwirmersweep and come and take. My brother, who was my great, great grand uncle, and he became a janissary, which was an elite Muslim force. He was brainwashed into Islam. And then he came back and he collected the tax from his own parents and didn't recognize them. But other than that, we live side by side. It was all great. Tell us about how it was all great again.

And then we bought a deli. It's called Brooklyn Heights Deli. Yeah. Is it still for sale? Your dad's trying to sell that. If anyone wants to buy Brooklyn Heights Selling him, I'd like to retire my father. He's complaining a lot. He was trying to sell that thing in like 2022.

Yeah. Still. Is it a good deli? What's the best sandwich in Brooklyn Heights deli? It's called the Monica Lewinsky. I swear to God. It's where to God. What is it?

Yeah, it just has come on it. The Lebanese just are good at food. Pat's good at food. As far as ARAB food, I think the Lebanese is good. Now, Pat's wearing a Paul O'Neill jersey, the old school New York Yankees player. And Paul O'Neill always stands out to me because I remember one time I was watching the Yankee game, it was just on, it was just me and my mom. And I saw my mom was watching the game. I was like, oh, my mom's getting to baseball. And she was just looking at Paul O'Neill, and she goes,

and she went, that man has some gorgeous legs. And I said, oh, shit. And that was the first time I ever heard my, the one and only time I ever heard my mother, there was two guys that I think she wanted to crack open. And that was Paul O'Neill. And do you remember the old Phoenix Sun's coach, Paul Westfall? Yes. Yes. She wanted to crack him big. Nice and tall drink of water. Pull up a picture of Paul Westfall because my mom wanted, these are the types of guys, Lynn, You know what the funny thing is about both those guys? They both look like your dad if he wasn't cross-eyed.

Yeah. So that's, she just wanted a better-looking version of your dad. If my dad didn't have a long, if my dad didn't have a lazy eye, a big nose, and wasn't too short and too fat, this is exact, they would look like Paul West fall.

And yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's actually, actually, I'm not that far off. Yeah, I mean, yeah. I'm not that. Your mom has a type. Yeah. And your dad, when he was younger, fulfilled that type.

Yeah. And she's just looking full. another version of your dad who took a different route. Yeah, now pull up Paul. I mean, that looks like you because it looks like you and your dad. Yeah, it's just what it is. Now, pull up. Because you look like your dad if he took a different route.

It's just what it is, right? Yeah. As you said, my mom just prayed me handsome. Yeah, it's the same thing with Paul O'Neill. Yeah. I mean, those two guys definitely look like handsomer versions of your dad. Yeah. And now pull up Anthony to Stephano.

That's the next one. Pull up Anthony, Anthony, and then D-I-S-E-F-A-N-O. Pull up that. and let's see let's see if does he pop up put in Anthony DiStefano Chris DeStefano Tampa Tony put in yeah DIS put in Tampa Tony

and let's see if that pops up Tampa Tony and let's see what pops up yeah yeah yeah go down go back up go back up but go back go back go back go back because there was just a real yeah look at the guy look at look yeah go to that one yeah I mean that's just what happened guys it's just what sometimes

it's just what it is. Right. But you know what the thing about Barty Robble, Tampetone, you know what the thing is about him? What? Is where that kid was 21, he was a smooth talker, and the future was his oyster.

Yeah, it's just what is. And then he put a couple dollars on it. Yeah, it just went in another direction. Yeah, and that guy with the glasses, if he third row down, is a switched off man right there. That man is switched off. Totally switched off.

That's switched off. Have you ever seen me? Have you ever caught me switched off? No, because this is what happened when I wasn't in your life. You got switched off. You were switched off. Holy shit. I was a little disconnect.

It's a little freaky, right? Yeah, it's a little like, wow. That's like a little, this person has done something to people in the neighborhood. Yeah. Wow. That is a guy who's completely switched off. Yeah, I wasn't there. Yeah, you were out and about.

Yeah. You were out and about. Because you were off the beam. Out and about was the gay podcast on Barcelona Sports that I was a part of. Yeah. You were swimming. in the sewage of Satan. It was crazy, right? You're off the beam, because that's what the beam is. The beam is Jesus's light above the sewage of Satan. Well, that, and that people say,

how did Jesus walk on water? I said he was on the beam. The beam was in the water. He was on the beam. Wow, look how switched off. A little switched off. Now, here's the question I have to you. Now, do I look handsome today? Because I don't feel handsome today. No, you look really good. Because my hair, I feel bad about it. I got allergies. I didn't work out this morning. I gained a pound. No, the pound, you look good. You look good. You're. You look good. You look. You look. look really good. It makes me pewing when you tell me. I like you, I like you plumped up a little plumped up. Yeah. I like you the way nature intended. Yeah. I like you the way nature intended, which is jumping from a 300 cholesterol to a 200 cholesterol in a week. Back up to a 300

cholesterol. Nice and plumped up from a Yankees jersey to a Mets jersey to peptides to boxing. Yeah, from guys to girls. Guys to girls. Crop McGrath from Staten Island to Westchester, back to Queens. I like you like little buddy foo, cuz just hop it around. Yeah. Switching directions, dodging cars. You're the video game Frogger cuts. And you get through to the other side, though. Yeah, one time Colin told me, Colin Quinn told me that I'm like a little B looking for pollen. You're a little bee.

A little bee looking for pollen's a good explanation. Now, my question for you is your mom liked the legs of... Paul O'Neill and Paul Westfall. Now, what you want to name me, Paul, and my middle name is Paul? Yeah, so maybe that had something to do with it. But what's your opinion? Because I know when your mom was dating that guy, Bill, I think his name. You would crawl in under the covers, but I had a good view of his legs.

So what were his legs like? His legs were nice, and what I would do is, because I didn't realize that I was cock-blocking my mom, but what I inadvertently do is they would sleep over and I would sleep on the floor. I would sleep on the floor. I would sleep at the foot of the bed. Right. One of the other. Like a little dog.

Yeah. Because you have to understand what I'm saying, and I'm being dead serious. When I was 15 years old, think about being 15 years old, I'm sleeping at the foot of the bed in the same bed as my mom and your boyfriend. It didn't last long because the guy said, I can't do this. You can't do this. Because I was a little disturbed, a little switch dog. Yeah, because she's, in the morning, said, Lynn, listen, I really like you.

But your son is past puberty and he's trying to sneak into your bed to sleep on the floor. Yeah, I can't do this. Yeah, I mean, I remember being. And then she defended you. She defended me. She said, you get out of here. Yeah, you get out of her. She threw my, that's how my woman.

She'll defend me. And then I remember being in college. I remember being a 22-year-old man still going to a pediatrician. Yeah, I remember. It's Dr. Dubas and he would look in the kids' ears and say he's dumbbo. So I remember being a grown man and himself. saying I see dumpo when you're. Yeah. You're a combination of a lot of things that ordinarily don't make sense,

and that's why you're such in good favor with the logos. Right. They really love you because you're a combination of things. You're a combination of a very smart guy and a retarded person. That's what it is. You have just a combination of things. Yeah. Like when you hear about the behavior, you go, oh, that guy's in a program, that guy gets

picked up on a bus and that guy goes bowling. Yeah. And then they see you and they go, that can't be the same guy. Yeah, how does he get a doctor degree in physical therapy? Yeah, they go, no. And how can he be a successful community? I go, listen, I don't know. I don't know.

But I'm telling you a story about a real guy, and this is what he did. And they go, who is that? That guy is that guy getting picked up? Right. Did they have to do the electronic thing to put, go down and have his wheelchair, get in the bus? And I go, no, that's Chris and Stephano. He's the leading score for St. Joe's. That's what it is.

He's the leading score for St. Joe's, guys. Yeah, pull out, yeah, put up Chris and Stefano, St. St. Joe's, I mean, you ever seen those pictures? I was a skinhead. You were a skinhead at that point, and that's what happens. You know how when you wear a suit, you feel more professional? I know when you had a skin, you said slurs in the mirror. It's just what it is.

You just did it. Yeah. I mean, look at that guy. Yeah, yeah. There's a couple of pictures of me with a skinhead. Yeah, yeah. And that's me getting inducted to Division III St. Joseph's Hall of Fame. My favorite.

My favorite. Which is a great accomplishment. The kid could shoot. The kid was his scorer. He didn't like passing that much. It's what it is. Right. But one of my favorite stories was, so Marco went to that gym for some reason.

It was such a coincidence. He went to a St. Joseph's. It was some event that he went to at St. Joe's, and he was walking in the hallway, and they had the St. Joe's Hall of Fame up on a piece of oyster tag. Yeah. It was like construction paper. It was like it was made in arts and crafts. And it was a picture of Chris was like his name in Crayola Barker underneath. And Chris was in the St. Joe's fucking basketball hall of thing.

That's it. Behind me. You see that. That's it. Me and this guy, that's what I wore to my Hall of Fame induction. I wore a New York Islanders warm up jacket. Now back then, that is when you were other side of the pizza restaurant menu, Chrissy. That was a little blown out, right?

That's potato croquettes. Yeah, but this guy was, you were good. Good, yeah. I'd be lady arms, though, a little bit. This is where, that, you know, when you're like in-between weight, I mean, that's where you like me. That's when you're at your handsomest. Right.

Yeah. Because the thing about you, like me, I, the thing about us, right, is we're kind of handsome guys, but we're a little untraditional, like it's a little off. Right. Like, you know, our different angles, different days. So it's like some days I look special needs and some days you're going like, is he? This is the most common thing I think girls say about me. Wait a second.

Yeah. They go wait a second. I saw that guy yesterday. He looked bald and he looked like at one eye. Yeah. Wait a second. Is he cute? Yeah.

I think I mean, is he cute kind of guy. I mean, I'm constantly in question. Well, I think what it is is like Brittany's friends are kind of like they'll say they'll, they'll meet you and they just won't have any comments. And then you'll kind of look good on a day and they'll say, you know, I never realized after 10 years that Janus is kind of handsome. Kind of handsome. Yeah.

Kind of cute. It's a constant. Wait a second. That doesn't make sense. I saw him post a video yesterday. I mean, he looked special needs. Well, it's got to be fun for Brittany, too, because every time she wakes up and goes like this and opens her eyes, she has a different husband.

She looks, she says, who's it going to be today? Yeah. And you, you're very handsome, but you, it changes so much. It changes so much. It changes so much. Yeah. It changes also from the angle. The angle, yeah.

Because one side I look handsome. on the other side. I don't. Yeah, you got like a good side, you got a bad side, and you got very sharp features and you got a, you got a little bit of a crow magnum forehead. So it just, when you get skinny, like, I'm trying to tell you what the truth is, guys. The truth is, is you're supposed to be a big guy. Yeah, but that's why I want to get in the Ferrari. Do you remember when we were at Joe Rogan and we were talking, we were telling him that, like, we were both boxing. Yeah. And I said, I found out that, you know, Sergio told me I got power in both hands and he said, he told me he was skeptical and he said, I had a head that looked like I would

just be floored in the second. Yeah, yeah, and he's not wrong. And then he looked at your head and he said, your head looks like it can take a punch. Yeah. Like, you look. Right. You look like a big guy.

Right. So I, and the thing is you want to be like a small girl. I want to be a little girl. I want to be a little guy. Yeah, I want to be little and I want to wear like a crop top and bell bottom jeans. That's what I really, really, really want. You know that look?

Yeah. And I want to have like a handbag. Like, that's what I really want. You want to be like Timothy Shaliman. Yeah, I want to have like cut off jeans shorts and I kind of want to be roller skating on 7th Avenue. Yeah. That's what I really,

really, really want to be like a petite guy. You want to be like Ben Stiller who's like 5'3. Yeah. But you're just on camera, you look like just a big fucking guy

because in real life, you're 6-1 at a natural rate. 220. You're probably natural weight, like comfortable weight. You're 220, 6-1. Yeah.

That's a heavy weight. But I don't want to be that at all. Yeah, you want to be bent down. I want to be running around. Yeah. That's what I really, really,

really, really want. That's how I want to come walking in. It's funny to you. It's very funny because you have an intimidating look. Right. Your head, you got a big forehead, you got, you look like a racist cop. Yeah. You look like a guy who's got a lot, if you go on the internet, he's got a lot of complaints.

You look like a 22 complaint kind of guy. Excessive force, excessive force, planted paraphernalia, reached in the car, planted a bag of coke, rough the guy up. Right. You know, you look like that kind of. that kind of guy. But then when you diet too much, you look like a lolly. I look like a lolly.

Because your head is just... But right now, I'm okay. You're a masculine guy. Right. But right now, you don't think I'm lolly yet. No, right now you're perfect. Stay here. Right?

Stay right there. But getting the Ferrari? On the TRT? Because I think what you should do is stay natural. I don't think that's good for you because once you get on the tee... Get in the Ferrari.

You can't get off. That's the problem. Yeah, but it doesn't matter because... It doesn't matter, because I mean, I just want to get on the Ferrari because I don't want to have any more kids. The ball shrivel up, it'll be nice. But where does the Ferrari lead? That's the thing.

I know the first... The Ferrari drives you into a little place called Divorce Town. That's right. Yeah, the only way out is in. It's the only way out to it, which I like. I like that expression. The only way out is in, the Ferrari could lead to a couple of weird places. Right.

That's the thing. You know? Right. Next thing you know, you're on a podcast. Right. You're raging. Right. You know, you get your ice coffee.

You throw it at Nick for no... It's just what it is. Yeah. I mean, Nick, Nick thought I was a different kind of guy when he met me, he thought like I was going to, you know, grab him by the neck and choke him out, but I really just put my arm out because I want him to check my blood pressure because I was having anxiety attack.

The thing about Nick that I love is... I love a lot about Nick lately. Nick's a great guy. Nick's great guy. Think about Nick that's great is, you know, he wanted to be an actor. The thing was, I think someone needed to tell Nick early. Listen, Hollywood isn't about, it's not about talent.

It's not about the role. It's all about look. Right. So every audition just show up with a feather in your hair and go, wow, wow, wow, That's what it is. And you'll get hired. Yeah.

Because Nick absolutely looks like a Navajo. Yeah. Nick looks like a crying Indian. Yeah. Like that one tier Indian. Yeah. That's what Nick looks like. Nick looks like he's going to die if he catches one of our colds.

It's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. He's got smallpox. Yeah. Nick just looks like his immune system can't handle the dirty whites that are in here. Yeah. But Nick is a fun guy.

What I like about, what I like about Nick is he's all business. Okay. You notice like Nick on the group chat, how can he respond? How can he help the show? He's all business. Nick, and he pumps him out quick, he pumps him out good. Yeah. And what I like about Nick is he's always quiet,

which means he's an introvert, which means he's an intelligent guy. Yes. And I think he's riddled with anxiety. 100%. I think the anxiety hits him like a fucking a million bricks. Yeah, like, yeah. Like if we started talking right now about how, hey, once you get to about 44, you know, the chances of you getting a heart attack go up 65%.

He's going to mow over that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's going to sit there. He's going to start sweating. Right. He's going to do it. He's going to go get his dent. Yeah, because a lot of times you and I are just locked in, but there's multiple times, if you look over, there's multiple times where Nick passes out from anxiety through the show.

And he gets back up and he misses, yeah. We should really have smelling salts in the studio. He blacks in and out. He just is in and out. Now, because the Patreon doesn't choose, we don't choose the Patreon. No, this isn't Patreon. This is YouTube. Oh, we're just, so we're keeping this one?

We have to, yeah. Okay. This is, yeah, we just haven't gone to the fun stuff yet, which is the dancing plague of 1519, is it? Why not? Yeah. Yeah. The dancing, you're off by one year, which is good. The dancing plague of 1518 is what we're going to be talking about today.

But first, before we talk about that, because we were talking off air about it, we got a situation here today. We got a situation. What do I do? I was offered Nick's tickets for game one of the NBA playoffs, which is tonight. I know this episode's coming on a couple days, but we're in game one of the NBA playoffs. Nick's ticket's court side. I had told my daughter that I was going to go have dinner with her tonight. I was going to be home for dinner because I didn't know.

that I was going to the Knicks game. Now they've offered me to go to the Knicks game at 8 p.m. tonight. And I invited Jasmine, who said she would come meet me. But then she was like, you know what? It's going to be too late. We're not going to get home to 11, 30, 12 o'clock. I don't want to upset the girl's schedules. So I'm going to stay home.

But then she said, you can go if you want to, which when the wife says that, that means don't go. So my question is for the room, what do we do? Do I, A, try to talk my wife into coming and have a good time with her. Do I be? just go home, forget the whole thing, or do I see, try to talk her out of going and have her

convince herself that it's a good idea that I go for business, and I bring one of you guys in here, and we go get before we can't. We can't, you can't put that, it's got to be on the Patreon. Why? Well, so we'll just put that part in the Patreon at the end, because we, this is YouTube. And he's just joking.

That's a joke. It's a joke. It's not, but do we go A, B, or C? I know, but you people need to know that that's fucking joke with two married guys. Yeah, it's just a joke. And it is actually a joke. It's just a joke. I mean, we're a joke. These people, they think, we say things and we mean it, we don't mean anything, we're

trying to entertain you. Yeah. Yeah, it's just now, you want the real solution? What would you do if you were made? If I was you, okay, you seem a little you seem a little undecided about it. I'm undecided right now. It's obviously, which is on brand. It's cool to go to a next game.

I love the opportunity, but I also there's a part of me that wants to go home and just be with the kids. Now, what, if you don't go, does it mess your thing up at all? Or no? I don't think so. What I would do is I would call them and come up with some type of emergency situation. My stepmother's dead, something like that, like, they go. They were like, wait, didn't she die last year?

I'm like, yes. But she rose and came back. You don't know what it is. She's very religious. So I gauge that and then see if it's not going to be a problem. If it's going to be a problem, then I stay. Right. So what do you think?

What would you do, because if you were big? You want to know the real answer? I want to know the real answer. That's why we're on the show. We're real guys. Yeah, this is a real answer, and it's against my interest because I could be the prime candidate for that second seat. Yeah.

Yeah. So I'll give you the real answer. If you want to know what to do to push you over the edge. Yeah. Okay. I would call your daughter. FaceTime with your daughter. Okay.

And be like, hey, Delilah, daddy's got a chance to go to the Knick game. Should I go? Yeah. And then she'll go, Daddy, come home. And then you just can't. Yeah. Because I tell you what happened to me yesterday. I was leaving, you know, we recorded yesterday, so I was leaving to go to go to go

a great Patreon episode, go to patreon.com slash history and is, and listen to our episode, Comedians for Christ getting coffee. So it was just an hour of comedians for Christ getting coffee, and we really had a fun time defending chrism to the infidels. We did that. We also had a lot of fun talking about how you can have a theme party and you can sort of think outside the box and think of some new theme parties to do, you know, because that's what a lot of people like to do it. Oh, it's 60s night. Yeah. 70's night. We thought of some new ones.

We thought of some new ones. We thought of some new ones. So go to Patreon and have a good time. Patreon.com slash history hyenas. It's always good for you to support the show and hang out with other fans back there in the chat box. It's very, very fun. Yeah. So what happened to me was I was leaving and true story. And what's the guy looking at? He keeps looking in the fucking studio. We've got to get out of here. Guy. Do we look like two guys who want to be looked at?

Yeah, we really got to get out of the studio. Yeah. I don't want to be looked at. Yeah. That's New York. What are you looking at? He could have been doing it as a friendly thing. Yeah. But she went in the window of her bedroom.

You're doing her. Yeah. And she went, bye, daddy. And I went by, and I went, love you. And she went, love you. And I just, I fucking melted. And then she did a heart with her fingers. And then I left, I got in, I was driving back in the car out of my driveway,

crying. Yeah. On the way to the podcast? Yeah. No, I was crying. Yeah. It made me cry. Yeah.

It just, I started crying. Right. So it's like, if you. like if you ask her and she tells you, Daddy, go ahead. If you go, die, would you mind if I went to the next game? It's court side. Yeah. She'd go, Daddy, come and then you just, and then you just can't.

But, okay, so while on the one hand, I agree with that and I should do that, I also don't want to put any pressure on my kids. Right. That's a good point. I want to put pressure on my kids. And unfortunately, my wife doesn't help me because she's like, do what you feel is the right thing to do. Maybe you need to pray on it.

Yeah, pray on it. Should I call my mom? Yeah, call your mom. Call your mom and ask her what you should do. What should I do? You know what she's going to say. Well, my mom has already, my mom never understood why she was like, you know, you're in a grown man with a family.

I don't know why you would go to Knicks games without your family. Right. But my mom doesn't really get it where my father's like, you got to go to the game, Chris. Right, right, right. Yeah. I think this is. You'd be in a conundrum too. I'd be in a conundrum.

I'd be in a conundrum. Yeah, because I'm at the age where it's like, it's an age thing, because. It's an age thing. It's an age thing. How great is it? Yeah. But you do it all the time. It's an age thing.

Like, I've only done it, like, I think twice with you, right? For the St. John's. And I, like, yeah, I could go either way. Right. It's like, that's the great thing about having a family. If I was a single guy, I'd be like, Chris, you call your wife. Yeah. Oh, Yanni's going to die in a cancer.

I got to put Yanni in a seat. But when you have a family, it's like what compares. Right. So it's like, it's very understandable the way you feel. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You always think something's wrong with the way you feel.

That's what it is. Yeah. There's nothing wrong with the way you feel. It's a conundrum because you have a family. and get home to your daughters is great, but going to the Knit game's great, so you have two great options. That's just what it is. So the people are listening to this, they're getting mad at you.

They're going, Chrissy, you've got two good options. What's your problem? Should we just call jazz on the show? Yeah. Call her up and ask her. What time is? Okay. You got two options that most people would kill for.

Yeah. Here we is. Okay. Okay. The only thing I don't like about your look today is you didn't think about your hair at all. Well, because I thought I was just going right home. But you know you got to look cute for me. I didn't put any.

Jellin. Hello. Hey. Hey. You're on the podcast. Just give me 30. Wait. Wait.

Oh, damn it. I was mid-sneed. Oh, really? It sounded like you were mid-something else. Oh, my God. What the hell? I'm sure she's thrilled about getting a call on the pod. So mid-snees, I'm sorry.

I just, we have, just give me 30 seconds of your time. I'm sorry for interrupting your sneeze. What do we do about this next game? I'm having a conundrum because I obviously, you know, told Delilah, we come home for dinner. I want, you know, Janice's suggestion was, why don't you ask Delilah what she wants, but I want to put pressure on her. You tell me, do what you feel is best, which I don't know what the hell that means. Look, don't put pressure on our 10-year-olds. Right.

I knew that. So that was good that I... You need to just do whatever's more important to you. What's more important to you, Chris? That's an answer. That's an answer. All right, honey, so I'll see you midnight. Yeah, so I got to have feet on the hardwood, babe.

Now, let me just talk, because what happens if, you know, tonight we're going to watch the game. I want to watch it with the family. They're not going to want to watch it. What if Delilah wants to hang out with her friends when I get home? Like, what do you think of all these scenarios? I just need a little help from you. You're just trying to make, maybe I already told you what to do, so. Right.

So do you want to come? So now it's up to you. Like, do you want to make a mistake or do you want to do what you're? Do you want, but do you want to come? No, no, no, no. I want to put the kids to bed and stuff. I don't want to go. Okay, because also the, another scenario is I gave them your name, obviously, like,

you were going to be my plus one, but we also had another idea in here. What if, you know, I understand like, I still went, but then, and I didn't change the guest name. It's just, Yon is thrown the Marisa wig. And then it was just, it was. And then it's kind of like, and everyone says, hey, Jasmine. I say, you know, and they're like, you look so great, you know? What about that?

Is that an option? I don't know if I could pull it off. You don't think you pull it off? I don't think I can pull it off because we have, you know, yeah, it's, I don't know if I. I don't think the binkled earrings, you'll be fine. Yeah, I don't know if I, I think it will, I think people will not believe it. They will not believe it. Okay.

All right. So, yeah, what I'm going to do is I'm going to call the people. You know, everybody an attitude. Right. That's it. I'm going to call the people at the Knicks office and see, like, like, you know, Like, what, if it's a problem? Because, you know, those seats can't stay empty.

And I'm sure there's, they'll get, someone will say yes right away, but. I'm, I'm sure. Yeah, because I'm making excuses. Because I know that's what you really want to. Just go then. Just go. It's fine. No, but I, I don't want Delilah, you know, but I, you know, I thought I was coming home today.

Myla will survive this. Right. I don't know. You will, but she will. All right. I'll coin a little bit. Right. Can we go back to my sneeze?

Yeah, go back to your sneeze. That's what you're calling it. All right. All right, bye. Bye. Listen, here's the thing, because I like when I call you. I like when you pick up. And I know that you never miss a call because you're using a little thing called

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It's one. I love the way we would do it. It's like they don't give you the answer, but the answer is in the not. The answer to that. She put it on you. The answer to that, boys, is she's like, you shouldn't be going. Yeah, she wants you home, obviously, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, but she would say that anyway. Right. That's what women always want you home. Right, right, right, right. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? You know, what you did was you, by calling her, now you made it, I think, even worse. Right.

Right. You made it worse. She laughed about it on the pod, but what's going to happen is I'm going to get a call privately, and she's going to do a little thing we call laying into me. She's going to lay into you and say, yeah, I guess we're not that important to you. Yeah. You know, you joke around. You say it looks like Marisa.

Yeah, like what the fuck? Yeah. You know, it is a legitimate conundrum. It is a legitimate conundrum. Because I want to be a good father, but I also want to be a good Knicks fan. Right. And if they advance, it gets harder to get those seats. Right. And I already asked, can I go Wednesday, which would be game two?

And they said, that's full. Yeah. So the answer, the option is now. Yeah. Or next series. Right. You know, because I'm on the list, which I'm very thankful to be on the list, but I'm not going to, I'm not every game on the list. Right.

Ben Stiller in those guys every game. No problem. What are you going to do to go? Because you obviously want to go. No, but there's a, I only want to go because I feel if I don't go, it's a really stupid decision because so many people would want to go. so I'm really making a decision for someone else you know what I'm trying to say I actually what makes me feel calmer

is me saying oh after this pond I'm just gonna I'm just gonna drive home well makes me feel calmer right you shouldn't feel that way because you go to so many so it's like it's understandable right if this was like a once if this was like a one Nick just can't believe you're not going Nick thinks I should go yeah again I'm just here to have a good time with my friends but yes you should go Nick you should bring Nick one time

Should I bring Nick? They won't let him in with those shorts No but we'll tell him he'll dress up We put a tuxedo on Yeah You know yeah You know like You remember the movie

What's the movie? Clueless You just take Nick We take him shopping Yeah We throw them on a thing I used to move my monkey To Stacy Dash a lot big

And clueless Was that because of her political opinions Or her And that and you know what I mean I like hot blacks And chubby Indians That's what I'm into Yeah she

It's funny like it's funny she like she really turned into a very conservative lady yeah but she will get she will get cracked open yeah well yeah well i mean when she was younger yeah yeah she she's almost 60 cuss is she have 59 holy she my god cuss we're getting old it's wild right she's almost 60 yeah she was 20 years old and clueless no way yeah in 1997 the movie came out oh sorry 30 years old yeah she's 30 so she was oh so she was a 30 year old playing a high schooler? Yeah. That's pretty wild. I mean, I think O'Cluas came out 96, 97, yeah. Yeah, that's funny

that, like, they were playing high schoolers and she was 30. 1995, she was 28. Oh, my, how old was the other one? Alicia Silverstone? Yeah. And let's get to the dancing plague of 1518. Yeah, we'll get to that. But how... I got to the dancing play of 1518. I mean, she's 60 years old?

She's 60 years old. Silverstone's probably similar. No, no, no. She was actually... She was really 20. She was... No, high school. 19. She was 19. She was 19 or 20. 19 or 20, yeah. Yeah. Also a gorgeous lady.

So, yeah, they just gave her the role and she was 10 years older than it. Just what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Holy macaroni. Yeah. Looks good for a 59-year-old lady, though. 100%.

Yeah. 100%. I just can't believe. I have, you know, that's the thing. She's from the South Bronx. I did not know that. I didn't know that either. I did not.

Still doing it. 100%. Yeah, that's a little older. 60 does not look like what 60 used to look like. No, no, no, no, a little thing called peptide. Yeah, I mean, yeah, she was something. Yeah, remember Vita Guerrera? Remember her?

Who's that? She was the best, best ass in the business. She was like, everybody loved her. When I was high school in my early 20s, was all the Vita, Vera, yeah, Vita Gera, look at her. I mean, this is going to make you go, remember her? Oh, yeah, yeah.

And the ass. Oh, yeah. They're not showing the ass, though. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there we go. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean.

It's tough to deal with. Yeah, it's kind of tough to deal with, right? It's just what it is. Yeah. Did she ever do porn, I wonder? Probably not. No. She just, yeah, it's just like photo.

No. Just, just picks, right? Yeah. This, I think, you know, she was coming age in that Maxim era. Yeah, right, so she never did porn. For like, girls were getting big money for, like, you know, sexy shoots. Right, right. Right.

She didn't have to do porn. Yeah. Right. But, yeah, I mean, Maxim just couldn't keep up. Once porn got on the internet, like, what do you do at Maxim? Oh, she has an OnlyFans, which makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. But you have to.

Yeah, she was an actress, right? I believe so. Yeah. I don't like OnlyFans. They make it too hard. I tried it once. It sucked. I don't like OnlyFes.

Because they want your info. Yeah, you don't want to give your info. Yeah, I'm not trying to give my info. Yeah. What can you do? They got to make it simple. Listen, I like Onlyfans because it's given a lot of girls make a lot of money on there. Yeah.

Now, we might get dinged on this for YouTube, so we've got to throw this on the Patreon. Why? Well, because don't, if you pull stuff up like this, doesn't it demonetize you, Nick? Am I wrong? Well, we don't have to show it. Okay. We don't have to show it. We don't have to show it.

All right, let's get to the dancing plague of 1518 because we were originally going to talk about. Let's take a hard turn. For today, we were originally going to talk about, we were going to do the resurrection, which I thought was a good idea. But then I thought, we'd be doing very heavy religion, very heavy crusades. I said, let's go not religion. Let's go not controversial. Let's just go fun, fun, fun, and Yanni, to his credit, came up with the dancing plague of 1518,

which took place in Strausburg, Austria, which is Janice and I have visited. Yes, this was a bunch of, you know, at the time, I think it was like France. It was part of the Holy Roman Empire. The Holy Roman Empire was like Charlemagne, right? They tried to bring back Rome. Everyone's always trying to bring back Rome,

but it was just sort of like a confederation of German states. There was plagues. There was poverty. Yep. And so in July, summer 1518, probably very cute in that area. Oh, my God. Remember how cute?

Strasbourg was, Hope of Mozart. Do you remember how much fun we had in Strasbourg? We had a good time. I remember I got that chocolate pastry and I was really enjoyed it. Yeah. So what happens is, it's this wild, wild, and this has happened a few times. This is a real phenomenon. We're not, this is documented.

This is documented. And it happened a bunch of times in Europe. And the thing that they, that all of them had in common was it was like dire situations. There was like plagues and, you know, and starvation and high, you know, and high, stress, obviously very religious people, Christians that believe the, you know, demons and all that type of stuff. I just took a scoop and a sniff, by the way, live on the pod. I did.

I inadvertently was like, if you listen to the Patreon episode, like the German college, I took a scoop and I took a snap. Yeah, because you are right that, because I now am constantly thinking of it. There's been so many times where I've unconsciously taken a scoop and then sniffed it, but now I've been thinking about it, but now I've been thinking about it and I took a scoop and sniff. There's no way. Once you scoop, you're committed to the sniff. You've got to commit to the snap.

And we talk about it on this week's bonus episode, so go check it out. It's very fun. So this lady, right? This lady, her name, who knows? Fra Trophy. Fra Trophy. So who knows if she was a piece or not? Probably a piece.

Probably a piece. With fumes, though. And I'll tell you why probably a piece. Tell me. Because she started dancing alone and then people joined her. Yeah. So she had to be a piece. Yeah.

Because if it was just some fucking fatty out there on the dance floor in the middle of the town square, Right. People just, you know, it's just, nobody has it worse than ugly fat chicks. It's just, it's horrible. It's just what it is. Yeah. I don't like that. I don't like it either.

But unless she started dancing in the middle of East New York, right. Nobody's going to join her. Nobody's going to join her. Unless she's in the predominantly black community. Right. Nobody's going to join her. Right. Right.

Makes sense. It's just a bunch of white guys going like not my type. Yeah. It's just not my type. They're going to leave her alone if she was a fatty boom bad. Fatty boom baddy. Yeah. If she was a fatty boom batty, they would start throwing

buckets of cold water at her. Live 14. Get her away. Yeah, well, they would have started throwing buckets of cold water because they would have thought that she got beached. Yeah, and they don't want her to die. They don't want her to die. They try to get water on and keep her alive.

They're trying to do the right thing. Yeah. So, she starts dancing, uncontrollably in the street, right? Just on a day in July, she starts bugging out. And she's not dancing like, you know, she's fucking, like a rave.

Right. Like, you know, it looks like, you know, you ever go to Fort Green? You know, Fort Green Park, which is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, and it's a bunch of Jamaicans and, like, people. I went to college over there. Yeah, and then you see, like, a bunch of dirty white people. Yeah, they're just kind of. Yeah, they're just kind of fucking flailing.

You know, it's a little fun fact about Fort Green? We're going to do a live podcast from that. Do you know, just recently they were doing the little excavating at Fort Green? Do you know what they found? What? Like 30 red coat soldiers from the Revolutionary War. Wow. Like full skeletons with the red coats.

With the coats on. With the coats on. Because that's how cute they were. They wanted to die with them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They were cute.

They were cute. The British, they had cute outfits too. Yeah, we should do an episode where we rate cute war outfits. Yeah, we'll do it. Because they were super, I would say super cute. You got to give Nazis number one. Of course, we've said it many times. Number two.

Just as far as style goes. Style goes. Yeah, I mean, super cute. Super cute. And I kind of like the Japanese Axis power World War II uniforms with those hats with the long things in the back. Like you're kind of running around playing tennis. I like it.

I like the World War I German helmets because, you know, they had a nice penis on their head. Yeah. I like that. You can use that as a weapon as a last resort. It just looked like one big bachelorette party. Yeah, it's what it is. It's where it had penises on their head.

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joining her. Right. And then the next thing you know, it gets. up to about 400 people just dancing. So the authorities, the medical people, whoever they were, I don't know what they did back then, I don't know who they were, they probably like dog catchers slash doctors, who knows what the fuck they were, witchcraft

people, priests, right? They all start bugging out and going, what is going on? How do we stop this? Right? So they try to contain a few of them, but they have like superhuman strength and they like flail around and it gets like dangerous. So they decide, okay, what are we

do let's just leave them right and maybe they'll stop they don't stop so then they go okay maybe um maybe if we bring actual because they're just dancing with no music either right so it's a very white right it's a very white thing to do there's no beat and they're just flailing around right and so they go what if we actually brought musicians in right and and and and maybe that'll look they'll fulfill them and they'll stop right they brought musicians in set up a stage and people started playing music and it just made it worse yeah more people joined right right And so all these people are dancing and they won't stop. And most of them danced until they died.

That's crazy. Yeah, their feet were bleeding. Yeah. They were swollen. They were spraying their ankles. They weren't feeling the pain. I mean, this sounds like a Puerto Rican barbecue. It really is this.

I mean, it is, and it has baffled historians and sciences till this day. They don't have an explanation for it. It's sort of like a mass psychosis thing, brought on by stress. That seems to be the biggest theory, Because after we talk about this, we'll look at other incidents and what they had in common. It was like people were under massive stress to the point where like we as Americans, what annoys me the most. Tommy. I'll tell you what annoys me the most.

When people like really shit on America, like I'm glad there's differing opinions and freedom of speech and people should always criticize everything. That's how you know you got a healthy society, decentralized power. But when they kind of crossed that line of like America's like a horrible country, I'm going like, What are you comparing it to? Right. What are you comparing America to a utopia? Right. Yeah, we're shitty compared to a utopia.

But name me a time and place or a country even currently that is better, freer, has more legal protections. Yeah. That is more anti-racist with legal protections. Yeah. All the things that you complain about. What is better than America? Yeah. Yeah.

Did you ever have to worry about fucking starvation? Right. Yeah. I mean, there's fucking poor people who were eating dollar burgers at McDonald's. Or being who you want to. to be you think that China was going to let Nick walk around with a hard on cargo shorts and a hoomtoed Guerrera mask through a story? It's not going to happen, dude. No. It's like, so what are we comparing it to? Because it's, it's, it's stories like this in history that let

you know, like, oh, these people had famine, disease, plagues. Yes. They were starving people. Yes, starving. And dying like left and right. And the doctors were just going, I don't know, Jesus cursed you. Yeah. Now is it. Now here's the thing with these phenomenons. They, they, they, they, the Salem Witch trials of the 1600s, the dancing plague of 1518, they always go back to this ergot fungus that grows on rye and causes hallucinations and spasms. They think a big part of mass psychosis from the past is this ergot phenomenon. Now, I can see how that could be, I could see how something like that, a fungus can cause these issues because look at now, look at the streets of like, say, New York City or whatever city

you're living in is with all these edibles, with making weed legal, look at all the crazy people in the streets now, and it's because of these, they, they overdo it on the edibles, and then they start to go crazy and hallucinate. So imagine back then without science and all that in ergot fungus could be growing through all your stuff, and you are really going crazy, but it's very easily explainable. Yeah, this could be like the first rave. Could be. I mean, we don't know, like, you know, this one was documented, this was the most documented one. Right. So I don't know. I haven't looked into it. enough to know if they had

baby suckers. Yeah, you don't know. And if they had light, they might have had fluorescent lights. Right. They might have been doing this. I don't know. Well, and St. Vetus, a lot of people in religious blamed it on St. Vetus, that it was a curse from St. Vetus who was thought to punish people with uncontrollable dancing. So that

tells me that St. Vetus is a homosexual man. It's very possible. Because that is a very gay thing to do to be like, I'm going to make everyone dance. Who knows? Maybe Diplo is a time traveler. It's possible. Just peaked in on 1518 and started hitting the wheels of steel. It's just what it is. This could have been the first DJ.

Yeah, and I'll tell you what, I always like to dance to Diplo, and I love his music, and the kid has got an absolute piece. Oh, as a wife? No, no, no, his dick. Oh, no, Chris, I didn't know about it. Google Diplo's penis. Real quick, and then we'll go back to the dancing play 1518. Why do you know about Diplo's dick?

Yeah, it's just what it is. Yeah, Diplo has got a fucking hammer cock. Yeah. See where that H is? Yeah, so he posted some picks. They hit my group chat. But if you look, Diplo has. got a huge, huge, huge penis.

Yeah, you could find it, place. His Diplo, yeah, he'll get, yeah. He's got a massive cock. It's just what it is. Here it is Diplo. Because, why do you know about Diplo's piece? Because I took that picture. Just what it is, Gus.

Yeah, and the kids got a nice cup gutters, too. Yeah, I mean, damn, the kid's got a fucking rocket. He's got a rocket, and the kid makes about 40 shmill year. Yeah, the kid, they make, just, they do well these DJs. He's not worried about it, Diplow. He ain't worried about it. He ain't worried about nothing. He ain't worried about the price of gas.

Yeah, but there it is. But yeah, Diplo's dick. What the fuck? Is that his actual penis? That's his pee-be-cause. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I tell you what, the circumcision, whoever did it was really aggressive. That kid, they removed the whole four skin.

He's got nothing even closed to that. I mean, he's all chafed down. Now, let me ask you this. Yeah, ask me. Let me ask, because you said there's other points in history that are similar to this 15-18 dancing plague. What are some of those other ones that you found out about through your research? I mean, look, so there's been other. times where this has happened, where this sort of collective behavior has been observed.

Right. And it was all, it was times in Europe. It was close to these times. So, Jesse, if you could pull up those times. Yeah, because it's mass, the problem is, is it's mass psychosis, mass hysteria. And I wonder if the people during those times just thought of it as like, oh, these people are crazy, we have to deal with it. Like, I wonder if right now, some of the, you know, some of the political opinions of some

of our brothers and sisters, if that is going to be considered mass. hysteria, mass hallucinations by historians. It used to come by making your kids trans. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. But yeah, I mean, this was something. So the outbreak was at that time, but also the people, I think they thought that these

were just people were just possessed by demons. Right. I think it was just trying to get into dance for it because some of these girls were pieces. And I think girls were just, they wanted to be free a little bit. It's just what it is. Yeah, it's not easy in a religious society to be a lady. No, you can't do it. It's just tough.

Now we had the laughing epidemic of 1962 in modern day Tanzania. A few schoolgirls started laughing uncontrollably. It spread through the school, then to nearby villages. Now, I don't know if that was that. Maybe they were listening to the history hyenas. Well, I was going to say, yeah, that or they watched a little Matt Rife. Yeah. Probably more like it, yeah.

Episode lasted hours or even days, and the schools had to shut down. People were fainting and there's pain and breathing problems. Then we had the meowing nuns of the Middle Ages. So in medieval France, we had a convent that reportedly experienced a bizarre outbreak when nuns began meowing like cats couldn't stop. They might have just been horned up. Yeah. It only stopped when soldiers threatened punishment. So that tells you that what, oh yeah, I just threw my pencil. So soldiers threatened punishment. This is often cited as an example of extreme group conformity combined with psychological stress in isolated religious

movements. And then of course, the one we mentioned, the Salem witch trials where young girls began having fits, screaming, convulsing, and accusing others of witchcraft and they all got burnt at stake. Yes. Oh, the June bug epidemic in 1962, which was going through one of those right now in Bayrith. Oh, God. Certain parts of Brooklyn is going to a bit of a bug epidemic, no? Yeah, yeah. It's just what it is.

You know what I'm... Oh, look at this one. The Leroy Ticks from 2011 or 2012. In Leroy, a group of high school students, Molsey Girls, developed sudden facial tics, verbal outbursts, and twitching, and it's called the Leroy Ticks. That's just what it is, because... Yeah, because they were being loud.

Yeah, they were being... kind of loud and they kept running away from magicians. So these are always women. My take on this, the fungus thing is very interesting. Yeah, ergo, because there was an outbreak during that time, 1518. So that's possible. But what I'm seeing, the common theme is like, and I've thought about this recently in history, I just think women always had it bad.

Right. Like nobody, they couldn't, they were so controlled. Right. And like so like kept and like ruled that I think they're just with these times where they just like somebody just lost their, they lost their mind and others grew in and it's like, yeah, I feel that too. Let's just, our lives are miserable. Right. Let's just fucking dance till we die.

Yeah, it's just what it is. So here's some other incidents with the dancing mania. 1374 was the biggest wave. Oh. And this was the largest recorded. And even the way they report it. Right. They call it an outbreak.

Yeah. spreading across multiple cities, Aachen, one city called Aachen, another Cologne, we know Cologne, Mets and Trier. METS. METS. METS. METZ. Yeah, METs. And Trier. So people danced in the street for days at a time, screamed, hallucinated, convulsed, and begged for help but couldn't stop. So that was another thing in 1518 too. The people were screaming and begging for help. Yeah. So it was almost like they were took over by something. That's why a lot of them thought they were possessed by a demon. which maybe they were, who fuck knows. But they were screaming out and crying in pain and asking for help and telling, please help me stop. So they couldn't.

And the same thing happened in 1374. And this wasn't local. It spread like a contagion along trade routes. And chroniclers describe thousands of people dancing until they drop. Right. And then we had the 12-37 children's dancing outbreak. In Erfurt. So do you think this is just Germanic, Frenchy, Gaulie,

tribal people like just, you know what I mean? Right. Just like getting wild, getting wild and weird? I mean, look, this one is like, you know, children reportedly began dancing and jumping on control being. I mean, that could have just been a little thing undiagnosed autism. But then they traveled miles to nearby by towns. Right.

And they were like, I guess they were traveling and dancing. They were marching. Right. It's like, I don't know what they were doing. And they collapsed from exhaustion. Well, how come it doesn't happen anymore? That's my question. What changed?

Why are there no more recent? I think because once whites. whites got around blacks, they got embarrassed to dance. It's just what it is. Yeah. Yeah, because you ever try to dance around black people, you just get very self-conscious. It's very bad, yeah. When I'm around white people, I feel very confident. I feel good, yeah. Yeah. Same thing with Latins, you just feel embarrassed.

Right. We just, we're not as good at that. Nick, can you naturally dance pretty well? A little bit, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's just they're born with it. Yeah. And then we had the 1020 to 1021 dancing mania and this was in Colbick or something, wherever the hell that is.

Colbick? Colbick. Colbic. It had some squiggly lines over it, so maybe it was like Ottoman territory. Right. A group allegedly began dancing inside near a church. Chronicleers framed it as a divine punishment. The dancers did the same thing. Dance for days or longer. This is one of the earliest documented cases, and this one was tied to religious interpretations. So this is interesting. These dancing plagues have happened through history, but I wonder why they've stopped. Yeah. And then this one, 1278, 200 people danced on a bridge.

Any of them die? the bridge reportedly collapsed. It's just what it is. It's just what it is. So you had a couple of fatty bum batties on there. And survivors were taken to a chapel. So this is just something that's happened. And by the way, so the 1518 stopped for unexplainable reasons in September.

So this shit went on from, what was it, July, August, and September. And you also have to remember how hot it was. It was summer. So a lot of them died from dehydration. Yeah. And they just, for months. Dance. No air conditioning?

Yeah, I think they were just kind of sick of being so rigid and they were starving and desperate and probably everyone was just praying to Jesus for the harvest and they were going, look, I don't know, maybe I love Jesus, but the kids is busy. Yeah, it's just, can we find one person who can figure out how to fucking make corn or something? Yeah, something. Can we just, can somebody bake a croissant? Yeah, I don't know. Like, listen, I know a lot of people look at history a certain way, but maybe there was no Jews there to help these people.

with their taxes. I don't know what's going on. This is how sometimes I think multiculturalism is good. Right. Because you get different people who are good at different things. Right. Maybe there was just genetic inbreeding. Maybe they were all Germanic inbreds.

I don't fucking know. You got to marry a Puerto Rican so your baby has a healthy immune system. That's just what it is. My babies are healthy. Yeah. Yeah. Now here's my question is we're coming into the end of the episode. We got to do the Patreon names.

I have to take what I'd be describing as an emergency shit. I'm crowning. Do I keep it in? Do I fight for something? Do I have something to play for? Or do we stop that and I take a shit? You stopped out and take a shit? But you don't think it'd be funny if we got something to play for?

Let's do. You want to do that? You want to do something to play for? Can you get me that pencil that I dropped? Because if I get up, I will ship my pants. Yeah, thank you, Nick. Yeah, let's do a high stakes. Yeah, I got to do high stakes because, yeah.

I mean, you're actually like, you could shit your pants. 100% could. Now, we only got two pages, Jesse. Two in reserve right there. Oh, we got two in reserve. Okay. So now, here's what we got to do, guys, is we're going to have to move through this a little quickly because I am crowning.

I do have what I describe as an emergency. We have an all hands-on-deck shit. And it's one of those situations where the bathroom that we share here, there's always typically around this time a pretty girl that takes a massive shit. So if she's taking a massive shit in there, I'm just going to have to open the door and shit in her lap. So here we go. Welcome to the patreon.com slash history ainaus. Welcome to our newest members, Marvel Malang, Kalbis Kaboom Kababs. Then we got Egyptian kid living in Canada, aka ice cold sand monkey.

Put him on the list. Ice cold sand monkey is nice. He's a kid who's just cold up there. Then we got Diddy, aka $3 Bill Cosby. We've had that. Brian Donaldson, Shane, Italian kid in Bensonhurst call me the Rhone Survivor. Put him on the list. Put him on the list.

The Rhodes. That's very inside. We'll explain it to you in the final round. Angelo, Joey de Alessandro. Then we got Call me. Shaggy the way I'll Wait, wait Call me Shaggy

The way I Scooby Glue Scooby glue Scooby glue like Scooby glue He could have just been Scooby glue Got it. So I'm gonna chicken finger it All right, yeah, it's a good one though Took a Blue Chew and my glue gun Won't Stop saluting, send help

That's a Drexler It's a Drexler, yeah Yeah, good one Christian whirling, Rusty Blanchard Preston Glad, Candid Yams With No Ham Candle Cudy Matt Okay

Slow Malley 13 Nicholas Stephanidis Fee-5 faux fum tucked back shooting rope in my bum Put him on the list Wow okay He's putting it through his legs And he's shooting his own glue

And his asshole Yeah it's very funny Logan Kendall I can't believe I ripped my shirt off On the potty That's tank That's tank Yeah

Welcome tank Then we got Freddy got fingered Cody Nandoah Morla Donati Ninies minor Wayzongxiane You got it's a walked into one Take

Yeah the Chinese bider Oh shit That is really bad Yeah Yeah Frisbee Listen The

The inventiveness that they go to To slip one past you Yeah It's impressive It's very impressive Yeah That's for the end of the year Tony

Yeah Walked into one Then we got Frisbee connoisseur Um He'd like shoes Yeah Liam Schlier

Mike Piro Edgar Allan Chohad James Nasser Tuddy's toenail clipper Eric Kishel Matt Loretty Chris is gay Chrissy the Bunyan Warlord Khan

Chicken figure Eat the rich Then eat my ass Chicken figure Frank How you doing keep it moving Eat my rich And eat is a really strong

Yeah Hunter Biden's crack pipe You know what chicken finger Yeah I mean you know We haven't had that Yeah She made her Leroy Cock disappear in her bikini, call her Harriet Houdini. Put them on the list.

Just what it is. Put him on the list. Yes. Yes. Matthew Bloom, Jake Barge. I hold my pride parades on January 6th. Put them on the list. Yes.

Just one. Sorry about that. God, it's just funny. Yeah. Melissa. Then we got Josephine and the Leroy Runners. I guess Josephine Tracy in Black Eyes. Josephine and the Leroy Runner.

Right, right, right. Okay, walked into one. Forgotten Genocide Monkey from Glendale, California with a back hairy enough to rival that of your worst Jew. So probably an Armenian kid or something like that. Matt Hayes, Gibson Butler, Match. Then we got... Forgotten Genocide Monkey's very funny. Very funny.

Yeah. Then we got, It's Coffee, Leroy, or Go Fuck Your Mother. Chicken figure. Chrissy likes them big, big, big. Sudzy soap, bum Kegels. Am I training offense or defense? I knew what he was going for Yeah

Call me AOC because I'm all out of come Put them on the list Yeah okay Put him on the list What is Yeah Put him on the list Michelle Tegarden

Melissa Ross Yanni's palms are sweaty Needs weak balls are heavy There's come on his sweater already Lady boy confetti Put him on the list Put him on the list Wow

Very dense today Yeah. Very dense with Yuma. We're not going to need the two reserve pages. Because this is dense with Yuma. We got Yuma. We got a lot of Yuma. Alex Hemphill.

Yanni's eyes are closer than the cousins that made them. Put them on the list. Holy shit with that. These are because they really came out. This is a Yuma. This is a Yuma Bukaki. It's a Yuma. This is a Bukaki Yuma.

Yeah. Irving Apodaka. Ivan. Wait, wait. Go back. Irving Apodaka. Okay. Ivan.

I think it's just kids real name. Yeah. Then we got Tim Dillon made my glue gun. green for St. Paddy's Day. Hashtag is this gonorrhea? Drexler, we can't disparage, but it's very funny. I mean, it's very funny. Drexler. Jerry Rice

adopted a Chinese baby and named him chicken fried rice. Ladd of 14. What do we do with that? What do we do with that? On the list. We're putting him on the list. This is the best list we've had over both.

Yeah, it might be. This is the best list of all time. And we still got about 30 more names. Dude, this is the best list ever. Okay. Then we got walked into one. A chicken figure. I mean, dude, it's a non-stop Bukaki.

Yeah. Ricky Bose, Logan Wagner. Then we got got a lobotomy and filled it with glue. Now I commit sodomy and listen to you. He glued in his own lobotomy. I mean, dude, we got to stop. It's a fucking avalanche. John Carla DiMaggio.

Sudo Minuto. Then we got I am schizophrenic. No you're not. Yes, I am. Put them on the list. What am I supposed to do? Yeah, it's just what it is. Holy shit. Dude, this is crazy.

This is crazy. Jaruteman 76. Magic Mainsiac. Thomas Schroeder. Jesus shrouded cockprint turn me Catholic. What do I do? Drexler. Actually, it's Jesus' shrouded cockprint turend me Catholic.

I mean, what do I do? I don't know. Put it on the list. Fuck. It's a good one. John A. A.L. Pinky Ring.

Chicken figure. Brad Morgan, William Brosselin, Anthony Slotman, Miles Rubesoff, disc golf champion the way I want to put frisbee's in chains. Tony,

Tony take note. Then we got Caucasian debris. Top-shelf Zaza disrupted my circadian rhythm. Kate Kelly. Chrissy can't make Josephine come. Yeah.

A lot of 14. Small piece, but still too big to fit between Janus's eyes. Put him on the list. Yeah, it's just what it is. This is just called ice on myself so I could skip the line at TSA. Okay, he's a good try.

Paul, Marshall, Richie, Adam Freddenberg, Cesar Chavez Student Union, Luca Fayful, Timothy Monjo, USA Kid, Redcoat, Dad, you tell me when. Blake Daniel, Gaze of Hormuz, Nick Williams, balls like Shaquille with a piece like O'Neill. Okay. Took so many peptides. My nephew calls me gunkle. and Ryan Jay. So we got a lot of people on this list.

You think this is the strongest list of all time? Of all time. There's no question about that. There's no question about that. I've never experienced the list, and I just want to keep talking, maybe you shit yourself. So that's also fun?

Yeah. Because I know you want to carry it up. But isn't it funny that on the list where he wanted it to go quick, it ends up being the longest list? Of all time. I mean, that just lets you know, the simulator's got, has a sense of humor.

Because you're like, I got to take a shit. They got humor. They just gave us the best. list of all time when you happen to maybe shit your pants. So here we go. And I've never done a list. I've never, we've never had a list where I was actually hoping that there weren't any funny ones more. Like because we had enough. I've never had that feeling where I was like, hopefully there's no more because it'd be too hard. Do what? Here we go. So we got Egyptian kid living

in Canada, aka ice cold sand monkey? Right off the bat, we know we're going to Drex for that. I mean, it's just great, but yeah. Wrong era. Then we got Italian kid in Bensonhurst, call me the Rhone survivor. We got to keep that around. Just keep it around. Yeah. Good word play. And the reason why that that's impressive is because Bensonhurst has become a mostly Asian neighborhood. Right. Where it used to be Italian. Right. Then we got Fee-Fi, faux-fum, tuck back, shooting rope in my bum. We're going to Drexler it.

Okay. Any other day, wrong era. Okay. Clyde Drexler. Then we got, she made her Leroy Cock disappear in her bikini, call her Harriet Houdini. We got to keep that around. We just have to, it's just what you? Harriet, yeah, we just got to keep it around. I hold my pride parade on January 6th.

We're going to, we're, you know, That is borderline walked into one, but it's a really good one. We're going to Drexler. We got Drexler. Okay. Then we got Call me AOC because I'm all out of cum. We're going to chicken finger. Okay.

Yeah. All out of cum. It's very inventive, though, and very funny. Very good. Then we got Janice's palms are sweaty, knees weak, balls are heavy. There's come on his sweater already. Lady boy confetti. We got to keep that around.

Lady boy confetti is very fun. We just got to keep it around. Janice's eyes are closer than the cousins that made them. We got to keep it around. It's just what it is. Got to keep it around. Jerry Rice adopted a Chinese baby. be a named-tim chicken fried us. We gotta keep it around. Yeah, it's nothing we could do.

Nothing we could do with that. Then we got god a lobotomy and filled it with glue. Now I commit sodomy and listen to you. We're gonna we're gonna directs for that. Okay. Then we got I am schizophrenic. No, you're not. Not yes. Oh wait, I'm sorry. I'm schizophrenic. No, you're not. Yes, I am. We got to keep that around. It's just so invented. Yeah. Then we got Jesus shrouded cockprint to rid me Catholic. That's so good. I mean, it's so good. Keep it around. Then we got small piece, but still not big enough to fit between Janice's eyes. With the other one is better.

That's the problem. That's the problem. Okay. Yeah. Okay. We narrow it down. One, two, three, four, five, six. We still have seven.

Jesus Christ. All right. All right. I'll go back from the beginning. Yeah. Italian kid in Bensonhurst call me the Roan survivor. So good. Got to keep it?

Is it a little inside's the only weakness. It's not his fault. It's not his fault. But if it has a weakness, I don't know. The Roan Survivor is great. Roan Survivor is funny. What do you think? Well, I think we compare that to the Jerry Rice one.

We got two Asian jokes. If you had to just do like a bracket. What are you doing? You're taking out the Jerry Rice one? We're taking out that one. We're taking out Roan Survivor? All right. It's very unfortunate.

We have to do this. This gets hard. She made her Leroy Cock disappear in her bikini. Call her Harriet Houdini. That one for me's got to stick around. It's got to stick around. Yeah. Yonis' palms are sweaty, knees weak,

Balls are heavy. There's come on his... Sticking around. Okay. Sticking around. Yannis's eyes are closer than the cousins that made them. That's got to stick around.

I mean, that's probably the best... All right, well, let's do the bracket again. Two Janus ones. Which one? Well, we got rid of the other Janus one. No, we have two Janus ones. Because we have Janus' palms are sweating. Needs weak.

Balls are heavy. There's come on his sweater already, Lady Boy, confetti. Yeah, but that's not a... But there are two Janus ones because then Yonnas's eyes are closer than the cousins that made them. Which I think is extremely inventive. That's the best joke. because we have to make hard cuts here.

I know. I mean, the best joke that's ever been made about my eyes. So then Lady Boy Confetti's probably got to go then. Because that's not going to beat that. But what's funnier than Lady Boy Confetti? I don't know. What's funnier than that? What's funnier than that?

But okay, but let's go back to the rules that we go by. If it was just Lady Boy Confetti, that would be good enough. Keep them both around for a second. Let's see what else is there. Jerry Rice adopted a Chinese baby. You got to keep that one. Then we got, I am schizophrenic, nor are you not. Yes, I am.

Okay, that one is so good. Dude, I'm not doing, this is like Sophie's choice. Okay, so I'm not killing all my babies. Jesus shrouded cock print, Turin, me, Catholic can go. We can get rid of that one. But only because it's such a strong list. That could have been a winner. That could have been a winner.

So then we got, she made her Leroy Cock disappear in her bikini, call her Harriet Houdini. Now that, you guys aren't having a strong reaction. That is very funny. It's a trans black man. It's very funny. And again, any other list, but I do think, because we really got to be, we really got to be picky now. I think that should go.

Okay. So I think it's really, we're down to really four ones that are really difficult. Can you imagine we're down to four? Yeah. This is the fucking best list of all time. Then we got Janus's palms are sweaty, knees weak, balls are heavy, there's come on a sweater already, lady boy confetti. Yanni's eyes are closer than the cousins that made them. Too good.

Jerry Rice adopted a Chinese baby and named him chicken fried rice or I am schizophrenic. No, you're not. Yes, I am. Dude Do we have to... I think this goes to the fans, man. I think it really does. I think we should whittle it down to two.

How do you whittle that down? How do you whittle that down? You got to get like really particular. Like, I agree with Jesse. You have to lose one Yanni. And I personally think the lady boy confetti's got to go because Yannis's eyes are close and the cousins that made them

is really layered, very, very good joke. And it's really difficult. We've had so many close Yanni eye jokes. Okay, so here's what we're going to do, though. Here's what we're going to do. Yeah. Here's what we're going to do. There's no way we're letting.

There's no way Lady Boy Confetti is getting out of here without some sort of prize. Okay. Okay. Because if you jerk it off the trans porn, you call your glue Lady Boy Confetti. Yeah. And so what? Welcome to the lexicon. What I'm going to do, Tony, can you take Lady Boy Confetti and put it on the lexicon on our website?

Because now that is what you call your glue if you watch you're transporting. It's lady boy confetti. And that's the definition. And if a lady, if the lady boy comes, it's lady boy confetti. And that's just what it is. And if you get some on your sweater, you have lady boy confetti on your sweater. You've made it into the lexicon, but you didn't win this one. That's what it is.

So you got a prize. So it's really between Yanni's eyes are closer than the cousins that made them. Jerry Rice adopted a Chinese baby and named him chicken fried rice or I am schizophrenic, nor are you not, yes, I am. Okay. Those are the three. Right. I mean, but should we whittle it down to two so the phones can, fans can just pick which

Okay, so you have schizophrenic, no you're not, yes, I am, not as laugh out loud funny, but extremely inventive. Right. So we're going to chick and finger that. Okay, okay. So here's your choice is at patreon.com slash history hyenas. That's where you get involved. That's where we become a part of the show. Not only do we have bonus content and extra stuff like that, but you get to vote.

You get to vote on who the winner of the week is. This is the toughest list we've had in the past eight years. So go to patreon.com slash history hyenas and cast your vote for Yanni's eyes are closer than the cousins that made them or Jerry Rice adopted a Chinese baby and named him chicken fried rice. I bet you, I guarantee you this one's going to be split down the middle. We may have to do like something else. We may have to hell on the wives. We might have to do something. All right. episode continues at patreon.com slash history hyenas. Ad free and fun, fun, fun, fun.